Studio Tour and Gallery Walk

Seed Space is hosting a Studio Tour and Gallery Walk in Nashville’s Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood to include artist studios and exhibition spaces in the Chestnut building and surrounding area, Sunday, June 9th, 5 – 7 pm. A guided tour of spaces within the Chestnut Building will be 5 – 6 pm.

Join us as we explore the emerging arts community in this neighborhood. Hors d’oevres and refreshments will be provided.

Ticket Pricing

In advance: $20
In advance with guided tour: $25

At door: $25
At door with guided tour: $30

Visit the Studio Tour page to see a complete list of participating studios and galleries.

Skitter Flutter is a reactive sound sculpture built with sensors, microcontrollers and motors.

A Raspberry Pi, webcam and light sensors take intentional and inadvertent input from those in the space – movement, sound, the casting of shadows – and feed that input to an Arduino microcontroller which in turn sparks the responsive mechanical soundscape.

“We are turning Seed Space into a sentient space that reacts to exploration with
skitters and flutters of nearly invisible but audibly reactive objects.”

Skitter Flutter grew out of Hunsinger’s Duet for Arduino & Soprano Sax, which features her robotic drummer, created with an Arduino microcontroller, an ultrasonic sensor and a motor. It is also influenced by her years of early morning bird conservation work in the Chicago area. She is Founder of The Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, a program in which volunteers rescue injured and stunned migratory birds in the early morning hours.

“I became fascinated with the idea of creating an environment of reactive sounds, similar in some ways to small mammals, insects or birds, which would be heard but not seen. These creatures would react to our movements but stay hidden. ”

Her new work attempts to keep its secrets. Sounds pull the viewer in but then dissipate upon investigation, much as crickets grow quiet as we approach.

Hunsinger is excited to be working with Patrick Becker and Steve Ghertner, whom she met through the Middle Tennessee Robotic Arts Society, a free resource in Nashville for those interested in pursuing robotics, technology and programming.

“Skitter Flutter” project website

Facebook event page

Bios:
 
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger is a classical Oboist turned mult-instrumentalist, improvisor, multimedia artist and composer now working in custom computer code to create interactive multimedia compositions. Decades of performance include concerts with the Metropolitan Opera, The Atlanta Symphony and The Chicago Symphony and appearances at the Chicago Jazz Festival, The Chicago World Music Festival, the Asian American Jazz Festival, the FMP Festival in Chicago and the Empty Bottle Festival of Improvised Music. Her recordings include the Marlboro Festival recording of Schoenberg’s “Chamber Symphony No 1″ with Felix Galimir released as part of Marlboro’s 40th Anniversary Series, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Grammy Winner, “The Wooden Prince” by Bartok conducted by Pierre Boulez. Her multimedia installations have been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art and at Thomas Blackman Gallery in Chicago. Her compositions have been featured on the New Music Depaul Series and at the MiXing Festival. Her ensembles include Trio with Joseph Jarman and Tatsu Aoki, Rebar, Corvus and the Robbie Hunsinger Quartet.

Patrick Becker is a graduate of ITT Technical Institute with an associate’s degree in Computer Electronics Engineering Technology. Since childhood, he has been “making,” using toys such as Steel Tech and Legos as his first media. Patrick has a passion for building one of a kind gadgets, and joined the Middle TN Robotics Arts Society (MTRAS) in 2008. Patrick’s projects Pyro Jam Can, Turn an Old PC into a Working Aquarium, and other novel projects have been featured on several notable websites, including instructables.com, hack-a-day.com, and lifehacker.com.

Steve Ghertner has degrees in electrical engineering and business from University of Texas-Austin and Georgia Tech. He has been tearing apart, building and “making” since early childhood. He was an avid amateur radio operator (WD4CFN) during his youth and liked to build radio equipment. He designed manufacturing automation systems following college. He has a patent for a water saving device and enjoys building hobby robots and other assorted “maker’ projects. He is one of the first members of the Middle Tennessee Robotics Arts Society (MTRAS), and has gained some notoriety in the small but highly enthusiastic, chicken raising community for his internet connected coop.

Temporary Art Review, a St. Louis based arts blog, recently interviewed our director, Adrienne Outlaw, about the various aspects and future of Seed Space.
 
Read the full interview, by Sarrita Hunn, here.

Celebrating Christmas Past
Andee Rudloff
Paint on wood base
4′ X 2′ X 2′
$444

Andee Rudloff is currently serving as the Education & Visual Art Director for the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center (SKyPAC) in Bowling Green, KY. In 2011, Andee was appointed by Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear to serve on the board of directors for the Kentucky Arts Council. Andee has continued her career as a professional visual artist specializing in community murals.

Showers of Good Cheer
Tiffany Dyer 
Umbrellas on wood base
3′ 6″
$75

Tiffany Dyer was born into a family of makers. She learned at a very early age the importance of creating.  Dyer is a maker, collector, teacher and artist. She has been teaching for over a decade.  She received her undergrad degree from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, TN and her MFA at Lesley University in Boston, MA.  Her concentration is in fiber and installation work primarily using recycled materials.

 Jingle Bells and Egg Shells
Julia Denison and Amy Cover
$150

ART-mas Tree
Mary Mooney
Plexi glass, oil paint, lights, wood base
24″ x 24″ x 47″
$475

Mary Mooney is a recent transplant to the Nashville arts scene. She received a BFA in fine arts from Denison University. Mary has been featured in various exhibitions throughout the Eastern United States as well as a group exhibition in Cortona, Italy. Her works are included in public collections at Denison University, and various private collections. Mary’s body of work consists of large format paintings (crafted in oil, acrylic, and encaustic), alternative process photography, and installation art.

 Gestural Tree
Alyssa Rabun
Wire, ornaments, chain on metal base
5′ X 2″ X 2″
$45

Alyssa Rabun is a freelance arts writer covering current exhibitions and artist profiles for Nashville Arts Magazine, Native and ArtNow Nashville.

Seed SPACE is a lab for site-specific installation, sculpture, and performance-based art in Nashville. We support our program in three specific ways. We bring in nationally recognized art critics to write our exhibition essays.  We host regularly scheduled public talks.  We facilitate meetings among artists, critics and curators. Through these means we aim to foster an exchange between a growing network of local and national artistic communities, which we believe is one of the best ways to support the careers of emerging artists. Located within a 100-year-old hosiery mill in South Nashville, Seed SPACE is supported by NCAP, the Nashville Cultural Arts Project, and is made possible with grants from the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Metro Nashville Arts Commission.

November 23-January 30th: We are pleased to present “Nashville on Channel TWo” by Jessica Westbrook, Adam Trowbridge and Benjamin Thorp. Our hours are M and W, 10-2 pm and by appointment. We will be closed December 19-January 3 for the holidays.

In the meantime, check out our exciting new CSArt Nashville Program where you can Invest in your Creative Community and get a Crate of Work from Nashville’s Top Artists!

Many more updates to come… till then, please visit our old site for past and upcoming Seed SPACE shows, exhibit information, etc.

Consider contributing and watch Seed SPACE grow!!

PARTICIPATE IN SEED SPACE’S COMMUNITY SUPPORTED ART (CSArt) PROGRAM!

BUY ORIGINAL WORKS PRODUCED BY A SELECTION OF NASHVILLE’S TOP ARTISTS. 

NEW SUMMER CROP AVAILABLE!

We are excited to announce the new crop of CSArtists: Hans Schmitt-Matzen, David Wood, Benton-C Bainbridge, Janet Decker Yanez and Emily Clayton.

Levels of purchase:

Mini share – $100 includes 2 artworks

1/2 share – $250 includes 5 artworks

Full share – $400 includes 8 artworks

*Shares are released at Seed Space’s Art Pick Up Parties. Next one is at the stylish E.T. Burk store in the Gulch, on December 16th 4-6 sponsored by Nashville Arts Magazine.

Artworks include: Sculpture, painting, printmaking, photography and video.

Previous artists:  Vesna Pavlović ,  Derek Coté, Herb Williams , Lesley Patterson-Marx , Emily Leonard, Sher Fick, Mike Calway-Fagen, Jodi Hays , Nicole Baumann, Ryan Hogan

  More about CSArt Nashville…

Community-Supported Art Nashville is a yearly art subscription service of locally produced art. Much like Community Supported Agriculture, in which shareholders invest in a local farm and receive a monthly payout of fruits and vegetables, CSA Nashville asks shareholders to invest directly in the arts community with a “buy local” mentality. The program offers a reasonably priced way to support Nashville and regional artists and receive limited edition contemporary artist projects in return.

Ranging from emerging to mid-career, participating artists have exhibited in museums and galleries nationally and internationally,  from the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN, Museum of Modern Art in Klagenfurt, Austria, The White House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Istanbul Biennial, Banff Center in Alberta Canada, Boston Center for the Arts, Seed SPACE and Zeitgeist Gallery.

CSArt Nashville is an opportunity for collectors to access exclusive editions of their work at an affordable price. Seed Space is excited to become part of a national movement to create sustainable models to fund local artists and contemporary art affordable and accessible, drawing inspiration from Community-Supported Art program of Springboard for the Arts in Minneapolis, MN, Alula Editions, Threewalls Chicago, The Present Group and The Thing Quarterly in California and the Risograph CSA Project in Grand Rapids, MI.

FAQ

Q: Can I choose which artists are going to be in my share? 
A: We like to keep it fun — the CSArt idea is similar to Community Supported Agriculture in that when you purchase a farm share, you don’t know exactly what is going to come in your produce box until you pick it up.  Keep in mind that we have hand picked the artists and think they are all great! You can get an idea of what to expect from checking out the artists bios and websites at the bottom of the page.

Q: When is the deadline for purchasing CSArt shares?
A: There is not a deadline to purchase shares – we will continue to offer them until they are gone, but don’t wait! We don’t have many left…

Q: What if my neighbor and I both get a share? Won’t it be odd to have the same art?
A: Although we only asked the CSArtists for limited editions, most went above and beyond, making 50 original works for the program! So… though the works will be similar in style, most will not be the same. You can also frame and display your piece using your own creativity, which will differentiate it from your friend’s work! Finally, know that you will both be important members of your local CSArt community.

More about our selected artists…

Emily Clayton received her BFA in 2004 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Chicago, New York, Nashville and Knoxville. She is a recipient of the 2012 Tennessee Arts Commission Professional Development Support Grant and has attended residencies at the School of Visual Arts, New York (2012), ACRE, Steuben, Wisconsin (2011), and Harold Arts, Chesterfield, Ohio (2009).

A multidisciplinary artist with a tendency to work in series that document shared memories and experiences, Janet Decker Yanez has a history of using sentimental and/or vintage fabrics, culled from her personal stockpile and donations from friends or family. She holds a BFA from the University of Houston in painting, with a minor in art history, and has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions nationally. Recently she founded Ground Floor Gallery + Studios in Nashville, TN, an alternative exhibition space and studio collective. Diverging from the use of textiles and in response to the limited time and space to dedicate to art making, she developed a “spray painting” technique using watercolors. Most recently, in “Conversations,” a growing paper trail of interactions between dual forms, she substitutes food coloring for watercolors and has dynamic results. Although consistently influenced by emotions and feelings rather than intellect, these days she archives these moments in time on paper and not cloth.

Benton-C Bainbridge is a media artist based in Nashville and The Bronx. Benton-C’s work is made with custom systems of his own design. Bainbridge has presented video in immersive environments, screenings, installations and live performances across 5 continents, collaborating with scores of artists around the world.Bainbridge has shown on five continents in venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, American Museum of the Moving Image, 2011 International Horticultural Expo (Xi’an, China), EMPAC (Troy, NY), the American Museum of Natural History, SFMoMA (San Francisco), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Dallas Video Festival, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Mercat des les Flors (Barcelona), LUX2006 (Sevilla), Auditorium Parco della Musica (Roma), Sonic Light (Amsterdam), Wien Moderne (Vienna), Inventionen (Berlin), Teatro Colón CETC (Buenos Aires), CELCIT (Managua), Korean Festival (Seoul), Good Vibrations (Australia),  MTV Networks (global), and Seed Space (Nashville).

Hans Schmitt-Matzen received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Middle Tennessee State University in 2003 with an emphasis in painting and a minor in philosophy. Since 2001, his artwork has been featured in numerous national juried exhibitions, museum shows, and art events independent of the gallery system. Hans often collaborates with photographer Gieves Anderson, who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. The objects they create together are denoted as Hans + Gieves artworks. Hans is represented by Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville, TN and Like the Spice Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Hans is involved with a number of curatorial efforts. He is a board member of Fugitive Projects, a curatorial collective that organizes exhibitions nationally and internationally. Hans is also a former member of the COOP Gallery in Nashville, TN. Since 2004, Hans has been employed at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, where he currently holds the position of Exhibition Designer.

David Wood is an earth artist and professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He has exhibited through out the United States and Europe.  He currently runs a 75 acre sculpture park, wildlife refuge, and retreat  near Woodbury, Tennessee.

Vesna Pavlović (Belgrade, Serbia) obtained her MFA degree in visual arts from Columbia University in 2007. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Vanderbilt University where she teaches photography and digital media. Her projects develop as anthropological studies, analyzing different cultures and their visual representations through particular phenomena. She has exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Museum of History of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. She has been featured with a solo presentation at the 12th Istanbul Biennial in 2011, and group exhibitions group exhibitions in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Tennis Palace Art Museum in Helsinki, Carinthian Museum of Modern Art in Klagenfurt, Austria, Photographers’ Gallery in London, Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, and FRAC Center for Contemporary Art in Dunkerke, France. Vesna Pavlović is the recipient of Robert Penn Warren Fellowship at Vanderbilt University and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation grant and artist residency in Taos, NM in 2011. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens and the National Museum of the Women in the Arts in Washington DC, Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade among others. She is represented by G Fine Art Gallery in Washington, DC and Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville, TN.

Herb Williams received a BFA in sculpture from Birmingham-Southern College. Williams has received The Joan Mitchell Foundation Museum Purchase Grant in 2004, the Next Star Artist Award in 2008, and was sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2011. One of the only individuals in the world with an account with Crayola, Williams creates original sculptures out of individual crayons that may require as many as hundreds of thousands. His work holds records with Ripley’s and Guinness.  His sculptures have been placed in public arenas, such as children’s hospitals, corporate lobbies, museum walls, and the White House. His work was featured recently at an Inaugural art exhibit in Washington, DC, with Shepard Fairey, and he opened “Plunderland”, a walk-in room installation consisting of almost 500,000 crayons at an art gallery in Chelsea. Herb is currently represented by The Rymer Gallery in Nashville, TN.

As a former explorer, frustrated architect, and aspiring social examiner, Derek Coté studied at Western Washington University, and Virginia Commonwealth University where he received his MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media. Coté has exhibited nationally and internationally including exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Houston Center for Photography, Exit Art, AC Institute, and Roebling Hall in New York City, Marmara University in Istanbul, Marc DePuechredon Gallery in Basel, and Artwave Radio in Athens, Greece. In addition, Derek was included in the 2007 Young Sculptors Competition, received a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Support Grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Tennessee Arts Commission, and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. In 2012 Derek will be attending The Arctic Circle, an artist and scientist-led research expedition to the high arctic.

Mike Calway-Fagen has shown across the country and abroad in venues such as Gazelli Art in London, the southXeast Biennial in Florida, QED Gallery in Los Angeles, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Islip Art Museum in New York, Banff Center in Alberta Canada, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. He has attended residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Sculpture Space, and others. In 2008 he received Tennessee’s Individual Artist Grant. He received a BFA from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 2006 and is currently finishing up his MFA at the University of California in San Diego.

Jodi Hays is an artist who makes work over several media that is informed by both the physical and the psychological landscapes in which we live. She studied Foundations at School of Visual Arts and graduated from the University of Tennessee School of Art with a BFA in Drawing. She pursued studio and curatorial projects in Boston where she lived, then earned her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Art.  She has been a resident at the Cooper Union School of Art and the Vermont Studio Center.  She has exhibited her work at venues including the Brooks Museum of Art (Memphis, TN) and Boston Center for the Arts.  Public collections include the J. Crew Company, National Parks of America and Gordon College (Wenham, MA).  Publications include Studio Visit Magazine (Open Studio Press, Boston, MA) and her work can be viewed through Gallery ELL (Brooklyn) and The Drawing Center (NYC).

Ryan Hogan is a native of Southeast Missouri and graduated with honors from Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tennessee with a BA in art and philosophy.  Hogan is a former artist-in-residence at Gallery F at the Scarritt-Bennett center (Nashville, TN) and has an upcoming show at Dittmar Gallery at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL).  His work has been featured at Seed SPACE, Twist Gallery, the Renaissance Center (Dickson, TN), Western Kentucky University (Bowling Green, KY), and Gallery F. His work has been reviewed in the Nashville Scene and the underground art publication The Rabbit.  Hogan has recently received a critic’s mention as the Nashville Scene’s 2011 best artist to watch.

Emily Leonard’s paintings are included in numerous private and public collections around the world, including those of the Tennessee State Museum, Swedish Hospital in Seattle, the UBS offices in Nashville, Martha Ingram, Nathan Followill of the Kings of Leon and Taylor York of Paramore.  Leonard’s painting I woke up and loved you is featured in the book Speak for the Trees, alongside such artists as David Hockney, Christo and Jean Claude, The Starn Brothers and Mark Ryden.  Leonard is represented by Davidson Galleries (Seattle WA), The Rymer Gallery (Nashville TN), Blue Spiral 1 (Asheville NC) and Anne Reed Gallery (Sun Valley ID).

Sher Fick holds a BFA Painting/Sculpture from Middle Tennessee State University and has studied at the Santa Fe College of Art and The Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. While living in the Florida Panhandle, Fick was nominated for the Cox/Bravo Channel’s Champion for the Arts Award. She has received several grants from The Tennessee Arts Commission and recently exhibited at The Pool Art Fair in Miami, FL.  Fick works from her rural home studio, teaches privately and is currently working on her book “Coping Skills – The Art and Inspiration of Sher Fick”; her artwork is included in several published books and as cover art. Her work has been chosen for regional exhibitions/biennials to represent the State of Tennessee. Upcoming exhibitions include works from “bitter + SWEET, A Way With Words,” a multi-work installation of encaustic/mixed media vignettes.

Lesley Patterson-Marx received a B.A. degree in Fine Art from Murray College and a Masters of Fine Arts from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Upon graduation in 2001, she was invited by Judy Chicago to work on “At Home, A Kentucky Project,” in Bowling Green Ky. Since moving to Nashville, she has worked as a full time art instructor and gallery director at Watkins College and helped found Plate Tone Printshop, a non-toxic, fine art community printshop. Her work has been featured in several publications, including Readymade Magazine and New American Paintings MFA Annual. Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries including Wendy Cooper Gallery in Madison, WI and Cynthia Broan Gallery in New York City. She is represented by Tag Gallery in Nashville, TN. She currently teaches book arts and printmaking to high school students at the University School of Nashville.

Nicole Baumann is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University where she earned both her BFA and MFA in Crafts and Material Studies. She has exhibited nationally including exhibitions at Zone Gallery in New York City, SPACES in Cleveland, OH, Lancaster Museum of Art, Wichita Center for the Arts, Marble House Cultural Arts Center in Mableton, GA, The Visual Arts Center of Richmond, 1708 Gallery and Quirk Gallery in Richmond, VA and Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville, TN. Baumann is also is a recipient of a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as well awards from the Surface Design Association and the International Sculpture Center.